Sunday, August 3, 2003
Four Israeli civilians wounded in West Bank
Sunday, August 3, 2003 Posted: 6:58 PM EDT (2258 GMT)
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Four Israeli civilians were wounded when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on cars traveling from Har Gilo to Jerusalem late Sunday, medical services and the Israel Defense Forces said.
The IDF reported that the Israelis were traveling in two cars near the Palestinian village of Wallaje.
Security sources said the shooting happened near the Wallaje checkpoint. The cars reached the checkpoint after they were shot.
The suspected gunmen remained at large.
Medical services said the seriously wounded victim was a 39-year-old woman. Her 9-year-old daughter was moderately wounded, and her 16-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son were lightly wounded, they said.
The shooting occurred northwest of Bethlehem, in the West Bank. A few weeks ago, Israel handed over the security responsibility for Bethlehem and the villages around it to the Palestinians as part of efforts to implement the "road map" to peace.[...]
Impression: It's understood that incidents like this will happen for awhile. The question is, what will the Palestinian Authority do about it? Will they sit back and allow it to happen, or claim there's nothing they can do, or will these attacks gradually peter-out, the purpetrators brought to justice.
Things like this don't give a lot of confidence:
Arafat decides not to transfer militants:
“It’s been decided that they will not be transferred to Jericho or Gaza,” minister of state without portfolio Abdelfatah Hamayel told AFP. Instead the leadership was seeking “international guarantees” that the detainees, along with the rest of the “hundreds of wanted Palestinians” would not be targetted by Israeli attacks, he said...
There were also other violent events that took place since the Hudna like the body of the reservist they just found and a bicyclist stabbed a month ago and I thought something in Jerusalem?
Do you know of any I missed?
Do you have a link to Al Asqua branch stating that Israel supposedly killed one of their guys and that they were going to retaliate. However, they of course said they would still abide by the ceasefire and considered this a legit defense of "their rights"
There have been a boat-load of incidents. This article mentions:
It would take a lot of sifting through news to figure out the exact incidents.
I've seen a number of links on the incident you describe, but none handy. I'll post them if I run across any.